Author Topic: light streaks / bug?  (Read 2924 times)

2013-04-01, 16:04:14

herbap

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light streaks under the window... is this bug or caustics?

2013-04-01, 16:16:42
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Ondra

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Is the material glossy? Try disabling glossiness/bump. I don't know where the light is coming from, but it is possible it is just some reflected light. I would need to see the scene to be sure
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2013-04-01, 16:41:30
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a sun and several corona lights...
with white material, no light streak, send the scene via http://corona-renderer.com/upload/

2013-04-01, 19:08:34
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Maybe it's "Crazy Bump" (bump >>>1)?
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2013-04-04, 16:05:43
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ok, I went over the scene, and it seems like it is caused by a combination of factors:
- extreme bump value (44)
- extremely low bump filtering value (0.01)
- using reflection further increases bump strength
- using very skinny triangles causes self-intersections

I won't fix this now, but I'll save the critical part of the scene (the 2 offending polygons) for later, when I'll try to deal with selfintersections in more general way
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